[Tagging] red housenumbers

[Johnparis]

In the case of Florence, as I understand it, the red numbers originally
denoted businesses, while the black/blue numbers were for residences.

It appears that they use the numeral followed by a space then a capital R,
thus 49 R for number 49 rosso.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Florence_house_numbers_import


On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Erkin Alp Güney <erkinalp9035 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> color=background:red; may work.
>
>
> 19-03-2018 21:24 tarihinde Martin Koppenhoefer yazdı:
> >
> >
> > 2018-03-19 18:35 GMT+01:00 Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org
> > <mailto:t.pfeifer at computer.org>>:
> >
> >     You would need to find first _why_ they have different numbers.
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't know why they have different numbers, but I can tell you that
> > they do have different numbers, and that both are housenumbers (that's
> > what I have been told on talk-it).
> > Here's an example for the same housenumber in different colour and
> > same street (600m distance) :
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1475157260
> > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1475157260>
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2376150091
> > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2376150091>
> >
> > For completeness, these occur also in Florence, Savona and maybe other
> > places.
> >
> >  I have also asked what people are using on the ground when giving
> > their address, and while some only add a "R", this is generally not
> > considered safe, because of indexed housenumbers (1A, 1B, 1C, etc.),
> > so they often spell it out (37 rosso).
> >
> Yours, faithfully
>
>
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